Evaluation

The last move of the STG with the "humanitarian corridor" in Deir Hafer shows a level of strategy and planification more developed that what they did in Latakia and Sweida. A way to understand that is that they are learning from past massacrres, trying now to have a more nuanced approach to the media strategy to prevent the the public outrage that their last two massacres created. Another way to see it is understanding the influence of MIT (Turkish intelligence) in this last operations.

To understand this better, we remember the words of Turkish Foreign affairs minister, ex-director of MIT Hakan Fidan, who said that the assault on the Aleppo neighborhoods had to happen because SDF "did not comply with the orders of A. Öcalan" and could not engage in dialogue without force beeing applied to them. With these attacks they try to undermine the DAANES and SDF proposal for federalised Syria, presenting it as an Israeli foreign policy vision for "fragmented Syria" as a way to counter-act the proposals of DAANES for decentralized, multi-ethnic and multiconfessional Syria.

The attacks on Sheikh Makhsood and Asrafiye started the day after the meetings between Israeli and Syrian foreign ministries met in Paris under mediation of US. After that meeting, they declared an agreement to share intelligence and work for de-escalation, allegedly in the southern part of Syria where Israel is expanding they occupied territories. That poses a question on why Turkey is using Israel as excuse to attack the kurds when is the STG who is in open negotiations with Israel, but probably there is no rational explanation, being it just a mediatic argument to redirect the discontent on Israel among Syrian Arab population against SDF.

Coming back to the humanitarian corridor, there are two effects that we need to remark from it. On one side is staging a provocation where they can easily present SDF as obstructing such a "humanitarian effort" to legitimize further attacks. They also create a ground to launch brutal attacks on the area having later the argument that they already evacuated civilians, framing anyone living in those territories newly designed as areas of military operations as a valid target.

One last point we want to remark is how the convulsed times we live in are also a perfect smoke screen for conducting such massacres. With increassing tensions and conflict all around the world, like the US intervention in Venezuela or the uprisings in Iran, it is more difficult for international media to talk about regional massacres in Syria. The situation in iran is also of big relevance for the kurdish people, since it is in Rojhilat, specially in Kirmansha, where the uprising is getting to higher levels of tension after Teheran, with many deads, injured and disapeared (if you have interest we can also bring further updates on the situation in Rojhilat, let us know about it!). Still, what is often the only way to break this media blocades is to organize and protest in solidarity with the ongoing revolution of Rojava. For that, get in touch with you local kurdish solidarity groups and keep updated about coming protests and actions!

Revolutionary greetings! 🖤